Bad Democrat

Donald Trump once said, “It’s such an old-fashioned term, but a beautiful term. Groceries. It says a bag with different things in it”. 

But are that many Americans buying groceries–as in, for their main form of food for the week? Or are they just doing takeout for most dinners? I’m not buying that most Americans cook recipes for dinner any more. And what was once something like opening up a can of chili or doing hamburger patties which wasn’t as much cooking recipes as it was making something easy, is being replaced with takeout because that can of chili just sits there. And to keep it cost friendly, some nights you just do a Subway sandwich or something.

Groceries actually aren’t less expensive than takeout when you have to cook actual recipes. Try just making a salad when you don’t already have the ingredients lying around in your fridge. If you want to make a salad with Starkist chicken on it, it costs about $23 from the grocery store and you could maybe get two salads out of it if you make the same salad again but it’s probably just one because the plastic things they sell the romaine or arugula in aren’t that big. No thank you, I’ll pay 5 more dollars for takeout and enjoy it more.

This matters because politicians are appealing to voters based on something they’re not doing..so…much? I haven’t heard of a politician yet who’s talked about lowering the prices of things that front-facing corporations are selling. For example, a Subway sandwich now costs about $16 and a Verizon bill is $125.